There’s a little bit more I want to say in response to Jessica Wolf’s article about the emotional release gained from bodywork, which I also wrote about here: Wolf says she asked her therapist not to touch her shoulder, yet the therapist did so anyway, very lightly….

When I first started learning myofascial release in massage school, I was hideously nauseous every time a fellow student tried the new techniques on me. That reaction was present through a couple of weeks of near-daily work; I couldn’t tell if my…